Belize Times May 9, 2021- Belize, Safest Destination

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9 MAY

THE BELIZE TIMES

2021

Established 1957

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9 MAY 2021 | ISSUE NO: 5248

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Belize, Safest Destination PlanBelize making History

With only 4 Caribbean Islands at the CDC’s Level one or two, Belize is the safest and only country on mainland Americas at those safer levels. This rating speaks positive volumes of the Belizean people who have been following the Covid protocols. Time has proven that the Easter vacation in Belize was not a super spreader event but one that left a mini-surge with most Belizeans being cautious. It also speaks volumes of Prime Minister John Briceño’s administration, the Ministry of Health and Wellness and the leadership of Minister Michel Chebat. Tourism Minister Anthony Mahler had the vision to get Belize’s tourist sector early into the vaccination schedule. This is being hailed in the region and internationally as the way to go. Collaboration between PM Briceño, Minister Chebat and Minister Mahler has thus been key as Belize seeks to rebound.

Belize’s population of 400 thousand makes our total vaccinations of 50 thousand jabs a very important milestone. Belizeans are already getting their second dose, the Ministry of Health and Wellness(MoHW), and the Prime Minister himself, are urging Belizeans over the age of 18 to find a center and get vaccinated.

One can even register online to vaccinate.

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FIRST AGM Pg. 2 BCWU and BTL sign Collective Bargaining Agreement

Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Enterprise

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PRESENT LOO

FABER:

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Still “No Apologies” For all the Corruption in the UDP

Pg. 10 YOU CAN REGISTER TO GET VACCINATED: HTTPS://VRSA.HEALTH.GOV.BZ/

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Belize, Safest Destination Continued from page 1

The MoHW testing policy has proven that the identification of infections is crucial in lowering the number of active cases—5000 plus in December to under 500 in January and under 50 in late March. The Testing and Vaccination policies have allowed Belize to become a safe haven for Belizeans and now our ability to invite the world of tourist visitors.

The Center for Disease Control(CDC) of the USA, our most important feeder country for tourists, has moved up Belize to tier two in it’s safe destinations ratings chart. Only 16 other countries in the world are at that level. The majority are 3 and 4 which mean heightened warning to stay away from those as the risk for Covid infections is too high and death is a possibility. Joining Belize in 2 or 1 in the Western Hemisphere are Cayman Islands, Grenada, Dominica and St. Kitts Nevis, four nations that all together are smaller than Belize in population and land size. Population density is a factor in the spreading of Covid cases. All are tourist destinations as well with the differences being that they are islands, and most further from the USA. As a matter of fact, Belize is the most favourably rated sovereign nation on mainland America. Our Central American neighbours will soon be able fly in once more as COPA airlines has indicated for this summer.

Norwegian Cruise lines are slated to return in August.

When the pandemic left its mark on Belize in 2020, it had decimated the Tourist industry into the past tense...but not for long we are hoping.

Last September, it felt like the mighty US was adding salt to our Covid gash as they placed Belize on Tier 4. They seek to protect their citizens from infections. This is understandable as the UDP had forsaken the Covid

response to non-existent. The rating thus admonished Belizeans as many look to the US for guidance; our tourism industry surely does. Americans were warned from coming to Belize at a time when our airports were just about to reopen.

Today, the airports are open but the land borders are still closed to tourist travels. The land borders are slated to be reopened maybe as soon as mid-May to Tourists. Our Covid numbers and that of our land border neighbours will soon make us ready for a total opening with extreme adherence to Covid safety protocols, of course. So Belize is here waiting for our visitors to use the airport and, soon enough, they will be able to come via the land borders.

The new Tier two rating is an awesome sign for Belize. For many Belizeans who have been unemployed for a year now this is a new glimmer of hope away from this pandemic. Vaccine rollout relief seems to be loosening anti Covid infection practices—the world case numbers are surging. But Belize is holding on. Our low numbers, approximately 80 as this article was written, may be a combination of factors including population size, Belizeans following the guidelines, and Ministry of Health leadership in implementing heightened testing and vaccinations.

You can follow the CDC guidelines at https://www.cdc.gov/ coronavirus/2019-ncov/travelers/ map-and-travel-notices.html.

For much more details on Belize’s tourism industry visit https://www. travelbelize.org/health-safety.

Belizeans are well aware that our Covid number is NOT zero but we have a level of control that has been developed with the new government instilling new leadership and a renewed hope for our comparatively small population of Belizeans. Every Belizean is ready for the new and renewed Tourism industry.

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BTL and BCWU Sign CBA Belmopan. May 4, 2021. 3:15 p.m.

On Friday, April 30, 2021, the Belize Telemedia Limited (BTL) and the Belize Communications Worker’s Union (BCWU) signed a four-year collective bargaining agreement (CBA) for 229 BTL employees.

The BCWU and the management of BTL negotiated provisions to maintain and enhance the good relations that exist between the company and the employees of BTL in dealing with the unprecedented labour and commercial challenges brought about by COVID-19.

Mr. Ivan Tesecum, CEO of BTL, and Mr. Mark Gladden, president of the BCWU, signed the CBA. Hon. Ramiro Ramirez, Minister of State in the Ministry of Rural Transformation, Community Development, Labour and Local Government, congratulated Mr. Tesecum and Mr. Gladden for the timeliness with which the CBA was concluded and the spirit of goodwill and collaboration that prevailed throughout the negotiations. The Minister further noted that the agreement will enhance the productivity of the employees through harmonious industrial relations.

Also present at the signing ceremony were Mr. Valentino Shal, CEO in the Ministry of Rural Transformation, Community Development, Labour and Local Government; Ms. Anne Marie Thompson, Labour Commissioner; Mr. Mark Lizarraga, BTL Chairman; Ms. Jolene Avila, BTL Human Resources; Mr. Mark Bowman, BCWU General Secretary; and Mr. Emerson Castillo, BCWU Trustee.

The Ministry continues to work closely with employers and employees throughout the country to promote good industrial relations, fairness, impartiality and tripartism for the benefit of all.

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Belize Prepares for the Restart of Cruise Operations BELIZE CITY, BELIZE, Wednesday, May 5th, 2021: The Belize Tourism Board (BTB) today released a new set of health and safety protocols that will guide the restart of cruise operations in Belize. The protocols outline the necessary adjustments and adaptations to be undertaken at each step of the cruise cycle - from home port, to destination and return.

These protocols are the result of many hours of hard work by the Belize Cruise Taskforce, working in collaboration with the Americas Cruise Taskforce and the Central American Cruise Subcommittee, to develop special health and safety protocols in line with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) conditional sail order. These protocols also incorporate recommendations from the Healthy Sail Panel, Belize’s Ministry of Health and Wellness and local stakeholders via consultations.

“There appears to be light at the end of the tunnel for reopening of the cruise industry. The outlook appears much more positive than it has for the past year, “stated Hon. Anthony Mahler, Minister of Tourism & Diaspora Relations. “It is vital that we are adequately prepared for the return of our guests, and the key to our success lies in developing a strategic framework to ensure a safe and secure experience for passengers, crew and the destination.”

For four consecutive years, Belize welcomed over 1 million cruise passengers annually to its shores. In 2019, prior to the pandemic, Belize

received almost 1.2 million passengers with 68% of travelers arriving at Fort Street Tourism Village in Belize City and 32% arriving at Harvest Caye in southern Belize. The BTB and the Ministry of Tourism & Diaspora Relations are committed to the full recovery of the cruise industry to Pre-COVID numbers, and to enhance the Belize tourism product to make it more competitive within the region.

Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) will resume with the first test sail on August 4th, 2021. This will be followed by the official first guests to call on Harvest Caye on August 9th, 2021, signaling the reopening of the cruise tourism sector in Belize. It has been over a year since the cruise industry in our region has been suspended, and thousands of Belizeans that work in this sector are now ready to welcome cruise guests to our shores once again, guided by the new health and safety protocols.

To download a copy of the protocols please click the following link: https://belizetourismboard.org/industry-sectors/cruise/

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EDITORIAL

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Heat Stroke!

he high temperature in the city and around the country can be felt. The heat and humidity are oppressive, and unbearable. We are warned to beware of the dangerous heat and to wear protective clothing, sunscreen, but most importantly, hats. The consequences of excessive exposure to high temperatures can result in heat stroke which mainly manifests itself by the obvious signs of disorientation and confusion. This addled behavior was nowhere more evident and well documented than in a column penned last week by Sedi Elrington. A few of the lesser-known symptoms of heat stroke such as mental turgidity and transcribed diarrhea were in full demonstration. It seems the gentleman has become befuddled and, in his stupor, forgot many details regarding his deliberate participation and even quiet consent of the dirty deeds during the last administration. Those deeds are precisely what has led us to where we are today…on the cusp of a devaluation.

The advice though well-intended, comes too little too late. The source of the misguided advice is another matter entirely. It is as if he has entirely disassociated himself from reality and the fiasco of the past UDP Administration of which he was an integral part and parcel. There is no country, no government that was equipped or had any experience in dealing with pandemics of this magnitude, its disastrous effects on health systems and the socio-economic consequences that followed. However, it just must be said that had Belize been in better economic standing, instead as he so eloquently put it “lived off the begging bowl” the ill effects would have been mitigated. However, the advice is then to beg some more as in the next few lines we are told that we can never hope to recover without more loans and grants. The begging bowl was passed around by the UDP in the name of Belizeans and some privileged Belizeans lived lives that taxpayers cannot now afford because the UDP, including the now Leader of the Opposition, was happily toasting whiskey on the shores of the Corozal Bay eating pibil tacos. While all this was happening…where was Sedi? Oh wait...he was probably at Progresso Heights!

The IMF has merely told us what we all know that we must tighten our belts and hold on for the bumpy ride ahead. Belizeans know what is at stake here, a devaluation of our currency will mean that all those imports will become even more expensive. The way forward and out of the bog is what is currently under discussion with the Unions. Belize has many highly qualified and educated technocrats who are working on policy and implementation of economic and fiscal policy to ameliorate the socio-economic effects of the current pandemic and the last disaster that was the UDP. It is indeed a disservice and offence to Belizeans to call us “Mal Pagos” when it was your administration who failed to live up to commitments while shackling us to even more debt.

Mr. Sedi, your doom, and gloom prophesies were not welcome in your own Party and during your time in government. They are certainly not welcome now; they are as irrelevant then as they are now. You manage to sound condescending and offensive toward Belizean professionals. You question the abilities and combined socio-political, economic, and fiscal policy acumen of an entire administration. Yet, your own Party’s administration of the affairs of this country was sadly deficient and your personal contributions to the debacle are well documented. It would behoove you, sir, to refrain from providing unsolicited advice on topics where you have absolutely zero expertise. On behalf of Belizeans everywhere, we bid you a cheerful farewell into your retirement where we hope you stay.

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Insolación

as altas temperaturas en la ciudad y en todo el país se dejan sentir. El calor y la humedad son agobiantes e insoportables. Se advierte que hay que tener cuidado con el peligroso calor y llevar ropa protectora, crema solar, pero, sobre todo, sombreros. Las consecuencias de una exposición excesiva a las altas temperaturas pueden provocar un golpe de calor que se manifiesta principalmente por los signos evidentes de desorientación y confusión. Este comportamiento de adicción no fue más evidente y bien documentado que en una columna escrita la semana pasada por Sedi Elrington. Algunos de los síntomas menos conocidos de la insolación, como la turgencia mental y la diarrea transcrita, estaban en plena demostración. Parece que el caballero se ha aturdido y, en su estupor, ha olvidado muchos detalles relativos a su participación deliberada, e incluso su consentimiento silencioso de los actos sucios durante la última administración. Esos hechos son precisamente los que nos han llevado a donde estamos hoy... en la cúspide de una devaluación.

El consejo, aunque bien intencionado, llega demasiado poco y demasiado tarde. El origen de este consejo desacertado es una cuestión totalmente distinta. Es como si se hubiera desvinculado por completo de la realidad y del fiasco de la pasada administración del UDP, de la que formó parte. No hay ningún país, ningún gobierno, que estuviera equipado o tuviera experiencia en el tratamiento de pandemias de esta magnitud, sus efectos desastrosos en los sistemas de salud y las consecuencias socioeconómicas que siguieron. Sin embargo, hay que decir que, si Belice hubiera tenido una mejor situación económica, en lugar de “vivir de la limosna”, como él dijo tan elocuentemente, los efectos negativos se habrían mitigado. Sin embargo, el consejo es entonces mendigar un poco más, ya que en las siguientes líneas nos dice que nunca podremos esperar recuperarnos sin más préstamos y subvenciones. El cuenco de la mendicidad fue circulado por el UDP en nombre de los beliceños y algunos beliceños privilegiados vivían vidas que los contribuyentes no pueden permitirse porque el UDP, incluido el ahora Líder de la Oposición, estaba felizmente brindando con whisky a orillas de la Bahía de Corozal comiendo tacos pibiles. Mientras todo esto ocurría... ¿dónde estaba Sedi?

Oh, aguante... ¡probablemente estaba en Progresso Heights!

El Fondo Monetario Internacional (FMI) no ha hecho más que decirnos lo que todos sabemos: que debemos apretarnos el cinturón y aguantarnos para el viaje lleno de baches que nos espera. Los beliceños saben lo que está en juego, una devaluación de nuestra moneda significará que todas esas importaciones serán aún más caras. El camino por seguir y salir del atolladero es lo que se está discutiendo actualmente con los sindicatos. Belice tiene muchos tecnócratas altamente cualificados y educados que están trabajando en la política y la aplicación de la política económica y fiscal para mejorar los efectos socioeconómicos de la actual pandemia y el último desastre que fue el UDP. Es un flaco favor y una ofensa a los beliceños llamarnos Mal Pagos cuando fue su administración la que no cumplió con los compromisos mientras nos encadenaba a una deuda aún mayor.

Sr. Sedi, tus profecías catastrofistas no eran bienvenidas en tu propio partido ni durante su etapa de gobierno. Ciertamente no son bienvenidas ahora; son tan irrelevantes entonces como ahora. Te las arreglas para sonar condescendiente y ofensivo hacia los profesionales de Belice. Pones en duda las capacidades y la perspicacia combinada de la política social, económica y fiscal de toda una administración. Sin embargo, la administración de los asuntos de este país por parte de tu propio partido fue tristemente deficiente y tus contribuciones personales a la debacle están bien documentadas. Te convendría, señor, abstenerte de dar consejos no solicitados sobre temas en los que no tienes ninguna experiencia. En nombre de los beliceños de todo el mundo, te damos una alegre despedida hacia tu jubilación, donde esperamos que te quedes.

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The Prime Minister John Briceño and the entire PUP Family wish all Mothers

Happy Mother’s Day

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To the world you are a mother, but to your family you are the world.

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Prime Minister

JOHN BRICEÑO Weekly Message April 29, 2021

Hey Everybody, in a time of limited funds and unlimited calls for spending, we must work a daily balance of creativity, discipline and boldness.

In the budget, I outlined a clear FOUR POINT PLAN: Adjustments to our recurrent spending, restructuring our debt, revenue resilience and structural reforms to enhance growth and improve gov-

ernance.

What all this means is that We will reduce the deficit and stop the bleeding of borrowing one million per day, a reality we all know was an inherited UDP mess.

We will move towards balancing the budget by being fair and equitable to all. We are all called to sacrifice. Our reductions are being managed with the reality we face, none of this is easy.

Public investments represent a major form of stimulating our economy. Our capital investment program is the single leading indirect provider of private sector jobs, in addition to the employment of those who are directly on the public payroll.

Our priority will be given to spending in the areas of health, poverty reduction, education, citizen security, and rural development.

All this is in keeping with our promise to build a Belize that works for everyone, “Todos Ganamos.”

Only a few weeks ago the country of India came to our aid with a donation of vaccines. We will forever be grateful. Now India is facing a growing catastrophe of death due to COVID-19. We must be in solidarity with them and all who are suffering.

Our best action is the successful Vaccine roll out. It is the responsibility of each citizen to help fight the COVID-19 war by getting vaccinated when it is your turn.

We just celebrated Labour Day. My Party was born at the hip with Unions, we struggled for Independence with workers at the front, and today we enter a new era of government on the platform of raising the minimum wage and ensuring that the many thousands who have lost their jobs will soon find work.

To all workers of Belize, those who toil under the sun or behind a screen, thank you for your service.

Remember to wear your mask in public, wash your hands often and watch your distance.

Thanks God bless and have a safe week.

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Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Enterprise Holds First AGM

In just a few months, the obvious is that the Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Enterprises is poised to lead Belize to economic numbers that will catapult us into a business powerhouse in the foreseeable future. Minister of Agriculture Jose Mai is placing his money and his grit where just a few months ago he could have only voiced his vision for the Agriculture sector during the grinding ever long years of the Barrow/UDP/Faber age of terror. His agriculture team is up to the challenge as they move Belize into a position of strength in terms of real food security and increased foreign exchange earnings.

On Day one after the 11/11 mandate was given by the Belizean people, the promised onslaught of Cattle moving across the western border was realized. Just to surmise this massive success story, at least 30 million has been injected into the Belizean economy in real foreign dollars. Why Barrow chose to lie to Belize that our neighbours had rejected Belize’s Cattle can only

be taken as a spiteful government who cared only for UDP glitter. There is NO laundering here. The cattle goes through the hands of the Belize Agricultural Health Authority before it leaves the country. The rest is jobs, purchasing power, increased revenue for the government, and food on Belizean tables, not to mention the multiplier effect which would be a statistical challenge.

The rest of Belize is burgeoning at the heart of what seems to now be an agriculture country; one that had been ignored and really bludgeoned in the past 13 years.

Onions, potatoes, cacao, pineapple, soursop, cabbage, lettuce, broccoli, tomatoes and the list goes on seem to have gotten the gist that planBelize is here. The farmers of Belize are as resilient as our fertile soil. Now. they are seeing a friend in Government

PRESS RELEASE

that is intent on making their economic environment as fertile as the soil they toil. As we have said here before and let’s emphasize, as Agriculture is emboldened and the health protocols make Belize safer and safer, Tourism will return with a powerful safety net called Agriculture.

The dynamics of the foreign exchange potential of the Tourism sector is well-documented and Agriculture will be the dynamic that will provide that shade that Tourism needs to flourish. God-forbid another Covid-level catastrophe, our farmers will be ready to feed the country. Is that a Belize working for everyone? Is that everybody winning? Yes….

Yes… In the line of this effort, the Ministry held their first Annual General Meeting. This in another touch that the farmers have been waiting for. Here is the official Press release.

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Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Enterprise Holds Annual General Meeting Belmopan. April 30, 2021. 7:30 p.m.

The Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Enterprise held its two-day virtual annual general meeting (AGM) on April 29-30, 2021 at the National Agriculture and Trade Showgrounds conference room.

The objective of the AGM was to present accomplishments and workplans that will guide the Ministry in its planning, activities, and initiatives over the next 12 months. The workplans outlined the vision of the various departments and partner agencies to promote agriculture locally and to be more export-oriented under the new programmatic framework of vegetable and root crops, grains, traditional crops, and livestock, among others.

During the opening ceremony, Hon. Jose Abelardo Mai, Minister of Agriculture, Food Security and Enterprise, highlighted the role that agriculture plays in the Belizean economy when farmers produce more local product and reduce the food import bill. Minister Mai emphasized the role agriculture plays in the economy and the importance of working together with all directorates and partners to achieve all the goals of Plan Belize.

Present at the event were Mr. Servulo Baeza, CEO in the Ministry; program coordinators; and national and international partners in development.

Ends For more information, please contact: Mr. Luis Pook Communications Director 822-2131

2021 LIQUOR LICENSE NOTICES Notice is hereby given that Marlon Rosado is applying for a Restaurant Liquor License to be operated at “M & M Sport Bar” located at # 9A Baymen Avenue, Belize City, Belize District under the Intoxicating Liquor License Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that Enna Guadalupe Ek is applying for a Malt & Cider Liquor License to be operated at “L & B Cool Spot” located on Texas Road, Scotland Halfmoon, Belize District under the Intoxicating Liquor License Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that Dayhry Mejia Marquez is applying for a Restaurant Liquor License to be operated at “Manhattan Club” located in Ladyville Village, Belize District under the Intoxicating Liquor License Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

NEEDED: 2 Domestic workers needed at Gallardo’s residence in Roaring Creek village, Cayo District.

The People’s United Party informs all supporters that applications are now being accepted for the Executive Committee of the following: Belize Youth Movement President Vice-President Secretary Assistant Secretary Treasurer Chief of Staff United Women’s Group President Vice-President Secretary Assistant Secretary Treasurer One (1) Representative from each district except Belize District and Cayo District which has two (2).

The Marshall’s Community Service Corps President Vice-President Secretary Assistant Secretary Treasurer One (1) Representative from each Caucus.

Application forms are available at your Constituency Office or Executive Committee. Closing Date for Applications is Friday May 14, 2021 at 3:00 p.m.

9 MAY

2021 PRESENT LOO

FABER:

Still “No Apologies” For all the Corruption in the UDP Yet another UDP red facade masked as a press conference seared the airwaves and choice social media. Yet another missed opportunity for the former party called the UDP. Opportunity for what? It was their golden chance to apologize, confess their wrong doings, give evidence to who did wrongs, and then resign. But it’s the UDP zombies just trying to zombify anyone who allows themselves. How do you get rid of a zombie?

About once a month, the UDP appear to tell the people they have NO Apologies for the cruel and criminal administration of the people’s business in their most recent 13 years of plunder-driven government. Instead, the extinct UDP keeps begging to remain relevant since the ‘PUP has failed’... albeit even in PUP’s 6 months of Covid, Agriculture, Infrastructure, and Tourism planBelize success.

Whenever the new planBelize PUP-led, John Briceño government of Belize reveals the past UDP corrupt government’s infamies, the UDP lowers their bar of shame. They go on the air to bask in their shamelessness Their latest unveiled infamy was another notch into the present most unapologetic Faber who endorsed $110 thousand dollar help to a fellow UDP crony emeritus. It is easy to fall for the UDPs presenting this now senior citizen, well-known in some circles, puedo artist, as ‘deserving’. Why would she deserve her mortgage to be written off? Aren’t many others deserving? How did she get funding from OUR SSB funds in the first place? SSB loans are to be given out to low-risk investments.

During UDPs 13, normal Belizeans could not get a Social Security Board (SSB) loan and much less if you dared to wear blue. Faber alluded that some artist emeritus like this UDP crony are PUP supporters. Did they all get SSB loans written off by the National Institute of Culture and History(NICH)? This UDP crony emeritus had even made videos in support of her party years ago just during the time period of this sordid transaction.

Add this to Faber’s Submarine Vehicle, Coc Oversight, Sports Council pre-election funny money, Belmopan Cit Council land payment to Faber, DPM housing perks since there were no DPM

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No wonder he is being called a caretaker or temporary.

This infamy at NICH is only surpassed by the infamy of paying a deportee talentless Music Ambassador to cause havoc at city night clubs.

Faber do not waste your money on not apologizing. We know that the UDP is guilty. You should just call your last presser to apologize, confess, and resign. Be a man.

Notice to Abate Nuisance Pursuant to sections 138 & 140 of the Public Health Act, the Belize City Council hereby serves notice on the following owners or agencies of the following properties to abate nuisance by cutting all overgrown vegetation within fourteen (14) Days of publication of this Notice.

OWNER

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Manuel Lizama

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1008

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Handyside St.

Melita Spencer

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Zericote St.

Irene B Guild & Janice E Guild

2634

322

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Central American Blvd.

Lorna Elena/Olga Turton/Delba Turton

1000/1001

769

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Quallo Alley

Denise Bevans

1562

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Tigris St.

Shenglin Li

6782

755

Mahogany St.

Shenglin Li

6784

758

Western Ave.

Keith Westby

6387

417

Heart St.

Lyndon Watters

6363

434

Jermaine Jerris Hendy

7308

1256

Hugo Silvia

7301

John/Mariela Flowers/Alvarado

2104

160

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Simon Lamb St.

Lydia Martinez

5598

76

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Lizzaraga Ave.

Kalemah J/Arlene A Belisle & Welch

3165

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Supal St.

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Mahogany St.

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Heart St. McKenzie Lane McKenzie Lane

Castulo Paiz Edith Eusey

803

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Regent St.

Jyoti Lakhani

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West St.

Carolyn Ann & Narciso Maurio Rivero

1198B

529

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Victoria St.

Gweneth Flowers

6927

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Electric Ave.

Jose Sisto Garcia

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Jennifer M Reynolds

2701

365

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Santa Barbara St.

Nerba Andrea Rodriguez

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386

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Santa Barbara St.

George & Sheila Ledlon

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Zericote St.

Gilbert Guild

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Gloria Young

1007

Partridge St. Ext.

Arlene Pasos

1038

Partridge St. Ext.

Carrol Miguel

5030

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Jose & Maria Perera

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2021

UB Awards Tuition Assistance: Acknowledges MOECST The University of Belize is pleased to award 34 Tuition Assistance Bursaries to deserving students. This Tuition Assistance Bursary program gives financial assistance to full time students, and supports them to meet their tuition expenses and can cover up to 25% of the cost of tuition in any given semester.

These awards mark the second disbursement under this program and the UB is hopeful to continue to provide this assistance to students in the upcoming Semester 1 in the new academic year 2021-2022.

The University congratulates the following students who received awards: 1. Dina Avila

13. Jenny Itza

24. Carlicia Petillo

2. Luis Ayala

14. Jenia Jenkins

25. Ashley Perez

3. Sheena Cab

15. Vercine Jimenez

26. Nella Requena

4. Freddy Chable

16. Itzel Kotch

27. Dinika Rowland

5. Thearde Chavarria

17. Deeksha Lakhani

28. Kaleah Rowland

6. Jeremiah Che

18. Abdias Mai

29. Tanisha Sedacy

7. Rosaime Chi

19. Canid Mendez

30. Collin Smith

8. Jermain Dominguez

20. Edras Mijangos

31. Ana Suazo

9. Melissa Ellington

21. Karla Mis

10. Faith Flowers

22. Julio Noble

11. Tatyana Guild

23. Steven Palma

PUBLIC AUCTION SALE - PROPERTY PUBLIC AUCTION SALE - PROPERTY

Hattieville, Belize District Hattieville, Belize District

BY ORDER of the Mortgagees Messrs. Heritage Bank Limited, Licensed Auctioneers Kevin A. Castillo and Christiana R. Castillo are

BY ORDER of theselling Mortgagees Messrs.

Heritage Bank Limited, Licensed Kevin A. C ONLINE via belizepropertyauctions.com the Auctioneers following property.

32. Henry Teck Christiana R. Castillo arecurrently selling ONLINE viaand belizepropertyauctions.com following property.

Sale running will expire on Monday the 17th May 2021 at 33. Danny Zul time2021 listed the website. running and will expire on Monday 17th May at on time listed on the website.

34. Erica Zuleta

12. Kevin Herdia

The University of Belize thanks the Government of Belize through the Ministry of Education, Culture, Science & Technology for the grant which made this support to students possible.

Students who are interested in this program for Semester 1 of the new ALLhttps:// THAT piece ALL or parcel of land consisting of 1.002of acres (4849.68 Square situate b THAT piece or parcel of land consisting 1.002 acres (4849.68 SquareYards) Yards) situate academic year may submit an application through the link below: 18 on the George Price (Western) Highway, Hattieville, Belize District bounded and described between Mile 17 and 18 on the George Price (Western) Highway, Hattieville, Belize District www.ub.edu.bz/admissions/finance-your-education/...

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bounded and described On theorNorth for a distance 46.32 metres by land now for North for a distance of 46.32 metres as byfollows: land now formerly of R. ofMurillo, on the South or formerly R. Murillo, Highway; on the SouthOn for athe distance 48.10 metres by the metres by the George Price of(Western) Eastoffor a distance of George 85.20 Price metres by (Western) Highway; On the East for a distance of 85.20 metres by other lands and on the the West for a distance of 98.31 metres by a parcel of land containing 0.801 acres TOGETHE West for a distance of 98.31 metres by a parcel of land containing 0.801 acres TOGETHER and erections standing being thereon.standing (Beinganda being concrete/timber situate beside with all and buildings and erections thereon. (Being building a concrete/timber (Western Highway) Hattieville, Belize District and lot containing 1.002 acres (4849.68 building situate beside the George Price (Western Highway) Hattieville, Belize District and property of Ms. Helen Robinson) lot containing 1.002 acres (4849.68 S.Y.), the freehold property of Ms. Helen Robinson) TERMS: STRICTLY CASH TERMS: STRICTLY CASH KEVIN A. CASTILLO KEVIN A. CASTILLO PR#260 TELEPHONE: 223-4488 TELEPHONE: 223-4488 Website: belizepropertyauctions.com Website: belizepropertyauctions.com Email: belizeauctionsales@gmail.co Email: belizeauctionsales@gmail.co Facebook: Belize Auctions Facebook: Belize Auctions Signs

National Hydrological Service MOU for Water Research Cooperation Belmopan. April 23, 2021. 2:40 p.m.

PUBLIC AUCTION SALE - PROPERTY PUBLIC AUCTION SALE - PROPERTY Pasture Street, Orange Walk Town, Pasture Street, Orange Walk Town, Orange Walk District Orange Walk District

The Ministry of Natural Resources, Petroleum and Mining through the

BY ORDER of the Mortgagees Messrs. The Belize Bank Limited, National Hydrological Service (Hydrology Unit) has signed a memorandum

BY ORDER of theLicensed Mortgagees Messrs. The Belize Bank Limited, Licensed Auctioneers K Auctioneers Kevin A. Castillo and Christiana R. Castillo are of understanding (MOU) with the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology and Christianaselling R. Castillo are selling ONLINE via belizepropertyauctions.com the follow ONLINE via belizepropertyauctions.com the following property.

(SAIT), through its MacPhail School of Energy Integrated Water Manageth Sale currently running and will expire Monday 17th May 2021at theon th Sale currently running and will expire Monday 17 May 2021at the time shown ment program in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. time shown on the website.

In signing the MOU, the parties agreed to the potential benefits in cooperating on research on Belize’s water resources, sector and management.

• • • • •

Common areas of interest in Belize between both entities include: optimization of hydrometric monitoring network; saline water intrusion in coastal regions; surface water resources; and groundwater resources.

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REGISTRATION BLOCK PARCEL OrangeSECTION Walk Town 4 3414 Additionally, this MOU includes cooperation between both parties on matAnn(Being Gabourel 4 1391 a vacant lot [522.500 S.M.] situate on Pasture Street, Orange Walk Town, Orange ters such as research on Belize’s water sector, resources and management (Being lotWalk [522.500 S.M.] Pasture District, the freeholdsituate propertyon of Ms. ChristineStreet, Hawkins)Orange Walk Town, Oran by experts from SAIT and training by experts from SAIT for the staff aofvacant the freehold National Hydrological Service and other Ministry personnel,the invited partic-property of Ms. Christine Hawkins) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ipants, or study opportunities at SAIT for Ministry personnel.

The Ministry welcomes this opportunity to foster partnerships beyond its borders to advance integrated water resources management and research in Belize.

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TERMS:- STRICTLY CASH ADDITIONAL INFORMATION www.belizebank.com (foreclosure listing KEVIN A. CASTILLO TERMS: STRICTLY CASH TELEPHONE: 223-4488 KEVIN A. CASTILLO Website: belizepropertyauctions.com E-mail: kevinacas@yahoo.com TELEPHONE 223-4488 Facebook: Belize Auctions E-mail: kevinacas@yahoo.com

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ON THE MOVE PM John Briceño and Special Envoy Briceño

Min. Anthony Mahler, TDR w/ Hon. Zabaneh and His Worship Mariano

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Min. Perez, BEA, Min. Mahler, TDR, SP Mayor Nuñez

Min. Garcia and MoS Usher, H.D.F. & I.P.A.

Discussing SP’s role in Sustainable Tourism and other issues On Working Visit to Southern Communities

Min. Anthony Mahler, Tourism and Diaspora Relations

Dangriga visit for direct insight into their Tourism Development Plan

Hon. Oscar Mira, Belmopan PM Briceño contributing to an Anglican Principals meeting

Min. Francis Fonseca, MoECST

Min. Michel Chebat, Health and Wellness Support and commitment to women GOLD program

W/ Ambassador of the ROCT H.E. Chien, discussed Belize’s tourism industry

Hon. Henry Charles Usher, w/ Fort George Committee

Min. Jose Mai, AFSE w/ Hon. Espat and Hon. Balona - Cayo Tour

Hon. Julius Espat, Cayo South At La Cooperativa El Servicios Varios El Progreso in Valle de Paz

MIDH team in Armenia giving farmers field access

Hon. Jorge ‘Milin’ Espat, Cayo West Assisting the Nazarene Church Youth Group of San Pedro Columbia, Toledo

Covid Vaccination and Rapid Testing keeping us safe

School warden booth donation to St. Mary’s Primary In very productive Springfield

Vaca Cattle Producing Farm

Meeting with the new Calla Creek Water Board

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LABOR DAY REFLECTIONS 2021!

Hon. Francis Fonseca, Minister of Education, Culture, Science and Technology

Since May 1, 2013 when my dear beloved Mother passed away, Labor Day has become for me a day of quiet reflection.

Today I am filled with deep gratitude and humility for the amazing love and support I receive each and every day from my family, friends and wider community of persons I work with as the Minister of Education, Culture, Science and Technology and as the Area Representative for Freetown.

These are difficult and challenging times for our Country, Communities and families.

I think of the young couple I met last week. Both are unemployed since May of 2020… Married for only 4 years…

Two young children… Shaken and weakened but not yet broken.

I think of the young woman I met only yesterday: Laid off from her Management Job in the hotel industry in August of 2020; Fiercely independent; Determined to provide for her child; She has bravely taken on 3 new small business projects over the last 8 months but met with little success.

I think of the young University graduate. Smart, articulate, disciplined, and passionate. He has been looking for a job since May of 2018 when he graduated from University.

His passion is Information Technology but he has worked as a Waiter, Sales Clerk and delivery man over the past 18 months. He is a proud young man… Never been in a Minister’s office before. He has every right to be frustrated and disillusioned but he is determined to achieve his goals. He came to see me looking for hope but it is he who gives me hope.

I think of the farmer’s and agricultural workers who rise each morning before dawn to toil the soil and give meaning to our Government’s bold, progressive Farm to Table Food Security Policy. I think of our health care workers, national security officers, judicial officers who have been on the front line of the deadly Covid-19 Pandemic.

I think of our NICH team of 170 who have been on 50% pay and 80% for the Park Rangers, since May of last year.

I think of our Job Creators, our bold and courageous entrepreneurs willing to take risks and create value. Many are stretched to their credit limits to keep the doors open and employees paid.

I think of the 15,000 Public Officers and Teachers who

face an anxious and uncertain future. During my 20 years of public service, I have had the great honor of meeting and working with many principled, dedicated public officers and teachers. I respect the good faith consistency of so many of our Union leaders.

At the same time, I have been saddened and disappointed by the hypocrisy and political opportunism displayed by a few Senior Public Officers, Principals and Teachers who in the past few weeks have awakened from their 12 year slumber under a corrupt, wasteful and abusive UDP Government, only to now find their voice under a PUP Government, new in office and faced with unparalleled fiscal, economic, social and public health crises. This PUP Government must be given a fair chance at success or failure.

Most of all today, I think of the 65,000 unemployed Belizeans and the additional 80,000 whose hours of work or salaries have been reduced to keep them employed.

The constant refrain, plea, cry for years has been that our Government’s are not serious about change and reform.

Our politicians are not serious, not prepared to make the tough decisions, the politically unpopular policy decisions.

Now, faced with the opportunity, forced upon us by corruption, mismanagement and Covid-19, for real, meaningful change, we must all resist the temptation to retreat into our respective corners and advance our narrow self interest at the expense of the national interest; to seek political opportunism over the national good; to choose self promotion over national unity; to say Change Yes but NOT at my expense.

On this Labor Day 2021, let us agree on a structured, reasonable, fixed timeline for the implementation of the Governance reforms we all know are desperately needed to finally put an end to the waste, abuse, corruption and mediocrity that has plagued our nation and hindered our development for so many years.

Let us come together to review and evaluate our public finances every 6 months and make policy decisions in the national interest based on these joint evaluations.

Let us pray for Belize but let us all work together for our beloved Belize!

Happy Nurses Week (May 6-12, 2021)

Theme: #WeAnswerTheCall

Thanks for answering the call to serve humanity during our greatest time of need in generations.

From the PUP Family, most sincere, Thank You.

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Ministry of the Public Service, Constitutional and Political Reform Implements Good Governance, Transparency and Ethics Course Belmopan. April 21, 2021.

On April 20, 2021, the Ministry of the Public Service, Constitutional and Political Reform (MPSCPR) in collaboration with Galen University, launched the Good Governance, Transparency and Ethics Training of Trainers course. Forty public officers from different ministries will be trained as trainers to implement the anti-corruption curriculum to public officers with-

in the wider public service.

In his virtual address to the participants, Dr. Osmond Martinez, CEO in the Ministry, said, “This anti-corruption training strategically mobilizes all segments of society to create public awareness. It is in alignment with the promise made by the Briceño Administration through Plan Belize for good governance and anti-corruption within our government area, while this week the algal cover system.” is segmented indicating a slight im- recorded was near BSI/ASR comOn February 18, 2021, the provement at certain points along the pound at 4ppm, which is within Ministry signed a memoranthe acceptable concentration limdeteriorated area. dum of understanding with Considering that the eutrophic it. There was no H2S concentration the Love Foundation to implestate of the New River may result recorded within Orange Walk Town in the release of Hydrogen Sulfide and Trial Farm area, but the DOE will ment anti-corruption training (H2S), the DOE is monitoring the re- continue to monitor this gas and imfor public officers as a part of lease of this gas. High concentrations plement necessary actions. its continuous professional The DOE appeals to the public to of H2S (>100 ppm) will start to imdevelopment programme. The pact human health; at concentrations seek information from official sourcGalen Institute of Leadership greater than 500 ppm, it has serious es that is guided by scientific data.

TENDER NOTICE and Continuing Development human health impacts. The week of Results from monitoring activities Education is conducting this For fur- DEFENCE April 19th, 2021, no H2S concentra- will continue to be shared.

BELIZE training ofFORCE trainers’ program, tion was recorded during DOE’s mon- ther information, please contact the which will conclude on May 27, itoring activity. On April 29th, 2021, Chief Environmental Officer, Martin MINISTRY OF NATIONAL DEFENCE AND BORDER SECURIT 2021. the highest H2S concentration Alegria at 822-2548.

The Department of the Environment (DOE) continues to monitor the state of the ecosystem health of the New River. The area between Toll Bridge going downstream to mid-Orange Walk Town and San Estevan continue to experience deteriorated ecosystem condition: eutrophic state. Various ecosystem health indicators have been observed not to be within acceptable range, for example, extremely low levels of dissolved oxygen have been observed within the entire water column of the river. This has resulted in a ‘dead’ zone with little or no support to aquatic life.

Last week’s monitoring showed continuous algal cover over the entire impacted

(Invitation to Bid) TENDER NOTICE BELIZE DEFENCE FORCE MINISTRY OF NATIONAL DEFENCE AND BORDER SECURITY BELMOPAN (Invitation to Bid)

The Ministry of National Defence and Border Security hereby invites tenders to supply the Be provisions: Clothing & Equipment for the Fiscal Year 2021/2022.

The Ministry of National Defence and Border Security hereby invites tenders to supply the Belize Defence Force with the following provisions: Clothing The successful tenders will be expected to supply theDefence following: & Equipment for FiscalofYear 2021/2022.

Thethe Ministry National Defence and Border Security hereby invites tenders to supply the Belize Force with the following provisions: Clothing & Equipment for the Fiscal Year 2021/2022.

The successful tenders will be expected to supply the following:

The successful tenders will be expected to supply the following:

CLOTHING & EQUIPMENT

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QUANTITY 1000 pairs

Vest Dry Fit (Green)

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Physical Training Short 3000 Pants (Dark Blue)

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All submission shall include the following: a. isBid be submitted Belize Dollars. a. Bid toisbetosubmitted ininBelize Dollars.

All submission shall include the following: b. Prices to include 3%3%tax whereapplicable. applicable. b. Prices to include taxdeduction deduction where c. Bids are to be type written. c. Bids are to be type written.

a. Bid is to be submitted in Belize Dollars.

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Belmopan at the address The envelope must markedDefence “Bids for the Belize Defence Force”. is tothan be 10:00am on mopan at the address The envelope mustbelow. be marked “Bids for thebeBelize Force”.

Submission is to be Submission made no later later than on Monday, June 28th, 2021.

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Dear Editor, I am a stay home parent… and have been working with my child like never before. I wish to share my point of view on the present dispute the teachers have with the government.

Teachers are protesting and going on strike. Last year when the pandemic started no one knew we would be facing an unbeatable beast; classes came to a halt. Teachers at that moment were confused as to how they’ll manage the student’s education.

To their advantage, the Minister of Education stated that schools will close until further notice. So, it was like a recess/vacation for the teachers and students. I am not saying

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Dear Editor, That Speech - A Statesman’s Speech I say – Hon. Cordel Hyde broke it down and it was real. He was convincing at Day two of the budget debate at the House of Representatives. Mr. Hyde rose to the occasion on that ship and came into his own. Mr. Hyde made his bones. He wrote that speech. I want to publicly thank him on behalf of my family and many others for his enlightenment. I saw, I listened and I read all of it.

His presentation spoke of his love for this place, where so many of you like home, choose to love and cherish and call our home. Our beautiful Belize was listening and watching as he imparted on the topics his peopled, our people—the Belizean people of all color are concerned about in our daily lives.

Many of us could hear and feel the vibrations that the messen-

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the teachers weren’t planning and prepping their school for the return. Were they?

The point is when classes resumed it was and still is a different setup. Parents came to play the role of teacher taking a spot to our daily routine. My children are very young so it was my reality. Are parents getting the credit for this? Why the teachers making a fuss now? We are all going through a bad phase.

My opinion, my point of view, we can also say that it’s unfair on their behalf quarrelling for their salary now that our country is in debt. They don’t want to chip in and accept to have a salary cut so we as the country can recover and surf through this and be the country… no… be a much better country when the pandemic is oveer.

This year the parents have put in as much as the teachers.

Yes, we do complain, we go through a hardships but they need to be kept on tabs so they don’t lose focus. Many families manage are teaching their kids ger believes in his message. I believe him. There were tears and blood in that speech.

Yes! Hon. Cordel Hyde is one of us. He comes from no Entitlement. He is courageous and I wish him the very best as he brings his knowledge of critical thinking and reasoning to the tale in solving the urgent immediate problems of this ship.

The Hon. Cordel Hyde took his sweet time as he prepared us for the medicine we will all have to take—Sacrifice. No-one is coming to rescue us. That is real.

The barbarians are at the gate.

For those who make up the naysayers, the pessimists and the pillagers, he had a message.

Nation building is a task for giants. For those who could not see the big picture he painted a mural of peace, understanding and love. For those who are scared and suffering, he gave them hope, and confort and visibility. The Hon. Cordel Hyde was in his element. He revealed his dignity, his integrity, his purpose and his Belizean consciousness.

His delivery covered all the bases and I say, Cordel, you hit the ball out of the park.

Signed Elvis Card

and putting in more than before. Are we getting pay? No, and we are getting our time cut? It almost feels like some teachers are getting paid for our work.

They don’t see that many has been laid off from work and have no monthly income and accepting rations and if lucky small stipends. Teachers were still getting their monthly payment even if they weren’t working as per normal. We can recall teachers off from April to September—free money. Yes it was not their fault and there any complaint on their side?

No, right! Free money for a few months. Then September came and my day became less.

They are protesting and now on strike still they’ll get their pay for this April since payroll had been made.

What about our kids? Not sure if they’ll have classes it’s like they playing a guessing game and they playing with their education. They are the educated, but yet they don’t they see and understand.

They’re being egoistic and don’t care who they run over and tarnish. I’m a stay at home mom.

I understand what’s happening and will try to make the best of it. Everyone deserves even a raise, but everyone works hard not only the Teachers…and probably EVERYONE has gotten come type of pay cut.

NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the Companies listed below have been dissolved and duly struck off the IBC Register as follows: NAME OF COMPANY BLAIR OVERSEAS LTD. CASSIOPEIA OVERSEAS LTD.

Date of Dissolution 30th March, 2021 30th March, 2021

Morgan & Morgan Trust Corporation Belize Ltd. NOTICE OF COMMENCED DISSOLUTION Notice is hereby given SNAKE MANAGEMENT S.A. commenced dissolution on 7th April, 2021; and Belizean Liquidators Services Inc. whose registered office is at 50 Shirley Street, P.O. Box CB-13917 Nassau, Bahamas, is the Liquidator of the company.

Notice is hereby given ODYSSEY CAPITAL GROUP LTD. and FEATON GLOBAL INC. both commenced dissolution on 9th April, 2021; and Belizean Liquidators Services Inc. whose registered office is at 50 Shirley Street, P.O. Box CB-13917 Nassau, Bahamas, is the Liquidator of the companies.

Notice is hereby given MARSIAN INVEST & HOLDING INC. commenced dissolution on 21st April, 2021; and Belizean Liquidators Services Inc. whose registered office is at 50 Shirley Street, P.O. Box CB-13917 Nassau, Bahamas, is the Liquidator of the company.

Morgan & Morgan Trust Corporation Belize Limited

NOTICE OF COMMENCED DISSOLUTION

Notice is hereby given OLIVIA FISHING CORPORATION, HAOBO CO., LIMITED and SPARROW FINANCE LTD. all commenced dissolution on 27th April, 2021; and Belizean Liquidators Services Inc. whose registered office is at 50 Shirley Street, P.O. Box CB-13917 Nassau, Bahamas, is the Liquidator of the companies.

Notice is hereby given SPATIAL MANAGEMENT LTD. commenced dissolution on 30th April, 2021; and International Liquidator Services Ltd. whose registered office is at Withfield Tower, 3rd Floor, 4792 Coney Drive, Belize City, Belize, is the Liquidator of the company.

Morgan & Morgan Trust Corporation Belize Limited

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Building a resilient and inclusive global health system together-Taiwan can help

By Dr. Shih-chung Chen, Minister of Health and Welfare The threat that emerging infectious diseases pose to global health and the economy, trade, and tourism never ceases. Pandemics can spread rapidly around the world due to international aviation and transport.

As of March 2021, a novel form of pneumonia that first emerged in Wuhan, China, at the end of 2019 and has since been classified as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has caused more than 126 million cases and more than 2.7 million deaths worldwide. The disease has had an enormous medical, economic, and social impact around the world, and significantly threatened global efforts to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Due to its proximity to China, Taiwan had been expected to be one of the countries most severely affected by the epidemic. But given its experience of fighting the 2003 SARS outbreak, Taiwan did not ignore the alarms, piecing together evolving official and unofficial accounts to form a picture of the emerging disease that implied a scope and severity worse than the global public perception suggested. Authorities used this information to launch enhanced monitoring on December 31, 2019, and have tirelessly implemented public health containment measures since Taiwan’s first case was detected on January 21, 2020. As of April 22, 2021, there had been 1,086 confirmed cases, including 11 deaths, in Taiwan. Life and work have continued much as normal for the majority of the population. Taiwan has contained COVID-19 ever since the beginning of the pandemic, including a record 253 days without any cases of domestic transmission between April and December 2020.

After dealing with SARS, Taiwan established a nationwide infectious disease healthcare network that is led and overseen by infectious disease experts across six regions. More than 100 secondary response hospitals are included in the network and all twenty-two special municipalities, counties and cities have designated their primary response hospitals. The network also provides the legal authority for transferring patients with highly contagious diseases to designated facilities based on public health and clinical need. This has proven instrumental in protecting health systems and health professionals from being overwhelmed, and allowed most non-COVID-19 health services to continue to operate without disruption during the pandemic. To date, there have been only two hospital-associated COVID-19 outbreaks in Taiwan. Both were well managed resulting a total of 11 cases and zero death of health professionals.

By introducing public health control measures early and effectively, Taiwan has also mitigated the economic impact of COVID-19. To maintain essential international, social, economic, and trade activities,

Taiwan implemented flexible adjustments for related quarantine measures for vessels and aircraft so that fisheries, offshore wind farms, and air transport industries could continue operations. In stark contrast with the global economic contraction, Taiwan’s GDP growth for 2020 was approximately 3.11 percent, with even higher growth of 4.94 percent in the fourth quarter. Furthermore, public trust and cooperation with the government’s response have been key to successfully containing COVID-19.

In formulating disease control regulations, the government has adhered to the principles of reasonable response, minimum damage, and gradual adoption. It has worked hard to maintain the balance between people’s right to know and personal privacy and freedom, actively responding to people’s wishes by upholding the principle of fairness at the same time as prioritizing the protection of disadvantaged groups, including migrant workers. Throughout this pandemic, Taiwan has demonstrated an emphasis on the right to health and associated protections and strong opposition to human rights abuses. Indeed, at no point has Taiwan restricted people’s right to free expression, assembly, or participation in public life.

Although COVID-19 has hit all countries hard, its impact has been harshest among already vulnerable and high-risk communities, as well as those lacking quality health care services and those unable to handle the adverse consequences of antipandemic containment measures. As a responsible member of the international community, Taiwan will do its utmost to work with the World Health Organization and global health leaders to ensure that all people enjoy living and working conditions that are conducive to good health. We will also monitor health inequities to advocate more effectively for universal access to quality health services.

Thanks to its robust health system, rigorous testing strategies, information transparency, and public-private partnerships, Taiwan’s response to COVID-19 has been one of the world’s success stories. This pandemic has proven yet again that Taiwan cannot remain outside of the global health network. Taiwan plays an indispensable role in the global monitoring and early warning systems that detect the threat of emerging infectious diseases, and the Taiwan Model has proven consistently capable of containing COVID-19. The pandemic has also highlighted Taiwan’s capacity to research, develop, produce, and supply therapies and associated tools quickly (including two COVID-19 vaccines that are presently in Phase 2 trials). Being able to comprehensively participate in and contribute to international COVID-19 supply chain systems, as well as global diagnostics, vaccine, and therapeutics platforms, would allow Taiwan to work with the rest of the world.

We urge WHO and related parties to acknowledge Taiwan’s longstanding contributions to the international community in the areas of public health, disease prevention, and the human right to health, and to include Taiwan in WHO and its meetings, mechanisms, and activities. Taiwan will continue to work with the rest of the world to ensure that all enjoy the fundamental human right to health as stipulated in the WHO Constitution. Echoing the mantra of the United Nations’ 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, no one should be left behind.

NOTICE

GOVERNNMENT OF BELIZE TREASURY BILLS ISSUE NUMBER 6/2021 Tenders are invited for an issue of Government of Belize Treasury Bills.

The amount of the issue will be $67,408,200.00.

The Bills will be issued in electronic form only evidenced by an electronic book entry in the Central Securities Depository of the Central Bank of Belize in multiples of $200 and will be repayable at par 91 days after issue.

They will be issued on Wednesday, 19 May 2021 and will be redeemed on Wednesday, 18 August 2021.

Each tender must be for $200 or a multiple of $200 and must specify to five decimal places the amount, which is offered for each one hundred dollars face value of the Bills sought.

Members of the public who wish to participate in the auction must submit their bid to the Central Bank of Belize electronically or at the designated drop off box no later than 12:00 noon on Monday, 17 May 2021.

The Auction on the Central Securities Depository System (CSD) will be opened from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm on Wednesday 19 May 2021.

Successful bidders should arrange to settle via the Automated Payment & Securities Settlement System of Belize (APSSS).

Bank: Central Bank of Belize Account: GLICORP0402627 The Government of Belize reserves the right to accept or reject any and/or all tenders in whole or in part.

CENTRAL BANK OF BELIZE Notices are placed on Central Bank of Belize Website (www.centralbank.org.bz) 30 April 2021

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THINK ABOUT IT WE NEED PUBLIC EDUCATION I have to write this this way.

We have entered the merry month of May in a not so merry way. There is deep dispute between two important unions and the new government. This should have really happened under the previous government which committed so much long term harm to Belize.

The Teachers Union and the Public Service Union are important workers organizations. They represent a large proportion of the brain power in our society. Perhaps the largest. The Public Service has many highly educated citizens but their university training is defused in the diverse departments, Ministries and Units of the vast bureaucracy in which they toil. They are also compartmentalized and as such share very little thoughts, discussions and ideas with their fellow public officers. They also have no interaction with wider Belizean society.

They share none with the teachers and vice versa.

The Teachers Union represent a totally different grouping. To be teachers they must have academic qualifications. These highly educated workers are individually trapped in their various areas of expertise, which by the way, are limited by their specializations and the overcrowding of their time and spare time with the all-encompassing task of teaching and correcting assignments.

Despite the important work of public service and teaching, the individuals and the organizations contribute very little to the public discourse. Especially in a society in which public information and public education are so, so lacking.

Which brings up two side issues before we return to where we wish to go.

Teachers and Public Officers are also citizens of the country and as such are part of the society and its culture, or lack thereof, in which public discourse is lacking. This is a crippling situation and contributes to the poor level of public education on important issues affecting our country. In a very real sense, it is this failure to engage in public discourse on vital issues which contributed to the Barrow administration success in subverting the nation’s institutions and wrecking such havoc on our country.

One cannot resist calling out our universities – The University of Belize, Galen University, and the University of the West Indies, local branch for their poor record in this regard.

The second side issue is the media. Bright and early Monday the 3rd May, 2021 Love FM morning hosts were saying, repeatedly, that the situation in March and April of 1981 was a mere protest, not a strike. This is not the fact. It was an official strike initiated by the Public officers Union. The strike successfully closed all government departments for several days, the business class closed their doors for fear of looting and the schools were forced to close by activists.

The Public Service Union which currently has issues with Love FM, should demand that Love FM correct the record. So successful was the strike that the then colonial Governor declared a State of Emergency, much to the chagrin of George Price.

Another false narrative repeated by the two male hosts on the Monday morning Love FM show is that the March/April strike and uprising were to no avail as all the issues in the proposed Heads of Agreement have been implemented. This is a serious misunderstanding and trivializing of a momentous period of our history.

The Heads of Agreement was a proposal from the British government for a framework for Belize and Guatemala to enter negotiations in order for Belize to get its independence. Had Belize signed unto this quid pro quo, as the only way to get independence, Guatemala with British support, would have dragged out the negotiations and subvert our independence. Pro Guatemala Ronald Reagan was scheduled to become the next President of the USA. America’s most decent President, Jimmy Carter, who halted arms shipment to Guatemala and criticized their dismal human rights record, supported Belize’ independence. He was a friend of George Price.

George Price had an ace up his sleeve. He had the overwhelming support of all African nations, all Caribbean countries and ninety nine odd percent of Latin America. Only Guatemala and Israel were against Belize becoming independent.

(The question Love FM should have asked was what the heck Israel is doing in our country).

Said Musa, a good and decent man and former two times Prime Minister, had said on several occasions that it may have been propitious for Belizeans to have rejected the Heads of Agreement as our history could have turned out otherwise.

History is a [expletive], ain’t it? The kind of flippant revision which occurred Monday morning on Love FM highlights how little respect we have for knowledge and facts. The media in Belize needs to make a concerted effort to serious fact-based discussions. Our country is in trouble.

This is the landscape. Krem and Plus TV; Love FM is a distant third. Channel 5 is mild and Channel 7 is nonexistent where some kind of public discussion should occur. Artists, intellectuals and activists are effectively silenced. Disappeared from sight. Local television, eh!

We have squandered our limited print media space. Or on this beautiful, breezy May morning we wish not to stir internal anger.

Our society is in trouble. That much we will utter.

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WE VOTED FOR CHANGE A Senior Public Officer two weeks ago went from her office to her vehicle in the parking lot of the Treasury. She twisted her ankle and suffered a fracture, and is in cement cast at home recovering.

Along comes a letter from Social Security Board- “your claim for employment injury has been disallowed. Your accident did not arise out of your employment.”

What about forced to stay home from a broken foot? The letter says sick leave benefit will be reviewed. The employed is at home with a broken foot, cannot go to work, on doctor’s orders but Social will “review” whether to pay her a few hundred dollars. So she has to wait for another letter.

Social Security is an insurance, except every worker must pay every month from their salary. They must pay, they have no say. When it’s time for Social to pay, they ‘noh’ have to pay, they can dance away.

Then listen to this. The letter tells the employee, who is forced to be their customer, that if she is dissatisfied with their stupid decision she can appeal, to a post office box number 18.

To appeal, the employee has to get a form, from the office.

Her foot is broken, she can’t walk or drive but she has to go to the same coldhearted office to beg for an appeal form.

When 80,000 Belizeans voted for a change of government, they expected the office clique would get the message that people are tired of being pushed around for what they deserve.

WHILE AT AIRPORT IMMIGRATION Three reports in four weeks…

A Belizean American came to Belize City to take back her ailing mom to U.S.A. she exceeded the 4 weeks visa given to her at airport on arrival (why limit Belizean Americans coming home) as her mom was not strong enough to travel. On leaving the country after 5 weeks she ran into one of those types. Got herself chewed out, chastised, threatened with being locked up for overstaying and generally treated like a little dog. She is livid over this unprofessional behavior.

We heard a similar story and again for an incoming Belizean American.

Need we say more.

HELICOPTER WIVES Jesse Lopes? A young man with dreams to be a Coast Guard.

Shot by a police officer in the presence of several witnesses. While on the ground in pain the officer goes closer and blows him a second time in the foot.

This young man eventually lost his leg. All his dreams and aspirations to make Dangriga proud of him shattered in a savage stupid act of a cop.

Alyson Major? Driving his vehicle in the middle of a town, Regent Street, Belize City. Trying to escape careless cops who later claim he must have been buying weed around George Street. The cops fly past the Supreme Court shooting at Major. Bang! Bang! Bang! And a bullet struck him, dead. A teacher, father, husband, productive citizens, cheated out his life.

You think the UDP Crown Counsels sitting in their comfortable office has any empathy for the few, the unfortunate, the victims of an uncaring system? None of them have received a dollar.

The “Crowns” are fighting against them in Court.

Well now, check this.

An anti-drug operation went haywire. BDF helicopter goes down, flying at night with no night gears. All four officers dead. Belizeans still don’t buy the official bullshit, UDP Press conferences after UDP press conference. Lies and more lies. And more questions than answers and then cover up.

The UDP government publicly promised the families they will receive compensation for the untimely and unfortunate deaths of their loved ones. The wives are promised they will back receive an ex-grata payment of one hundred thousand dollars per soldier.

That was early March 2020.

They lied.

A DEPARTMENT OF FRUSTRATION According to Google, bureaucracy is ‘a system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives’.

That is disturbing, but it explains how a massive change of government in November 2020 has seen no movement in the public service to improve service delivery and cut out frustration citizens are forced to endure.

Have you passed the so called Vital Statistics Department on Queen Street in Belize City? Dozens of citizens are forced to stand up on two sides of the street as they try to get a birth certificate or marriage certificate. The situation is horrible and unacceptable.

Nobody gives a damn about the suffering public.

It’s just messed up.

To add insult to injury, after enduring hours in these long lines, in the heat, with Covid masks, on reaching the counter, Belizeans are told there is no paper on which to print out their certificate, so they have to return some weeks away.

Imagine coming from Punta Gorda, Benque or Corozal and to be treated this way.

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9 MAY

THE BELIZE TIMES

Malaria vaccine hailed as potential breakthrough

By Philippa Roxby A malaria vaccine has proved to be 77% effective in early trials and could be a major breakthrough against the disease, says the University of Oxford team behind it.

Malaria kills more than 400,000 people a year, mostly children in sub-Saharan Africa.

But despite many vaccines being trialled over the years, this is the first to meet the required target.

The researchers say this vaccine could have a major public health impact.

When trialled in 450 children in Burkina Faso, the vaccine was found to be safe, and showed “high-level efficacy” over 12 months of follow-up.

Larger trials in nearly 5,000 children between the ages of five months and three years will now be carried out across four African countries to confirm the findings.

Malaria is a life-threatening disease caused by parasites that are transmitted to people through mosquito bites. Although preventable and curable, the World Health Organization estimates there were 229 million cases worldwide in 2019 and 409,000 deaths.

The illness starts with symptoms such as fever, headaches and chills and, without treatment, can progress quickly to severe illness and often death.

‘Major health impact’ Study author Adrian Hill, director of the Jenner Institute and professor of vaccinology at the University of Oxford, said he believed the vaccine was the first to reach the World Health Organization’s goal of at least 75% efficacy.

The most effective malaria vaccine to date had only shown 55% efficacy in trials on African children.

Vaccines against malaria have been rolled out before, such as this one in Ghana The trials of this malaria vaccine started in 2019, long before coronavirus appeared - and the Oxford team developed its Covid vaccine (with AstraZeneca) on the strength of its research into malaria, Prof Hill said.

A malaria vaccine has taken much longer to come to fruition because there are thousands of genes in malaria compared to around a dozen in coronavirus, and a very high immune response is needed to fight off the disease.

“That’s a real technical challenge,” Prof Hill said. “The vast majority of vaccines haven’t worked because it’s very difficult.”

However, he said the trial results meant the vaccine was “very deployable” and “has the potential to have a major public health impact”.

In a pre-print study with The Lancet, the research team - from Oxford, Nanoro in Burkina Faso and the US - reported the trial results of R21/Matrix-M, after testing a low and high dose of the vaccine in children,

between May and August, before peak malaria season.

The vaccine showed 77% efficacy in the higher-dose group and 71% in the lower-dose group.

Halidou Tinto, professor in parasitology and the principal trial investigator at the Clinical Research Unit of Nanoro, Burkina Faso, said the results were “very exciting” and showed “unprecedented efficacy levels”.

“We look forward to the upcoming ‘phase

III’ trial to demonstrate large-scale safety and efficacy data for a vaccine that is greatly needed in this region.”

In Africa, there have been more deaths from malaria than from coronavirus in the past year.

The Serum Institute of India, which has manufactured the vaccine, says it is confident of delivering more than 200 million doses of the vaccine as soon as it is approved by regulators.

Biotechnology company Novavax provided the adjuvant for the vaccine, an ingredient which is used to create a stron-

2021 ger immune response.

Malaria is one of the leading causes of childhood mortality in Africa and Prof Charlemagne Ouédraogo, minister of health in Burkina Faso, said the new data showed that a new malaria vaccine could be licensed “in the coming years”.

“That would be an extremely important new tool for controlling malaria and saving many lives,” he said.

DEVELOPMENT FINANCE CORPORATION INVITATION TO TENDER FOR THE PROVISION OF INDEPENDENT LEGAL SERVICES FOR TWO YEARS (2021 – 2023) The Development Finance Corporation (DFC) hereby invites tenders from qualifying Law Firms to: 1. Provide legal advice/opinion for new Lines of Credit and contractual arrangements between DFC and third parties.

2. Review loan facilities letters and security documents for large projects.

3. Prepare Writ of Execution for loan recovery cases.

4. Represent DFC in Court on loan recovery cases.

5. Advise on policy matters which affect DFC’s operations.

6. Provide advice on policy recommendations for the improvement of DFC’s products and services, within an acceptable risk framework.

This “Invitation to Tender” and the related “Statement of Work” are posted on the DFC website: www.dfcbelize.org. They are also available at the DFC Headquarters Offices on Bliss Parade, City of Belmopan, and can be forwarded electronically upon requests.

Requests are to be submitted to Ms. Vanessia Burke, Corporate Secretary, Email address: vanessia.burke@dfcbelize.org. Telephone number 822-2350 extension 235.

Tenders are to be prepared as outlined in the “Statement of Work” and submitted in sealed envelopes clearly marked “PROPOSAL – DFC INDEPENDENT LEGAL SERVICES 2021 – 2023”, addressed to: Corporate Secretary Development Finance Corporation Bliss Parade P.O. Box 40 City of Belmopan Belize

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Tuesday May 25, 2021

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Belize Social Investment Fund

JOB VACANCY TECHNICAL OFFICER – COMMUNITY/INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT The Belize Social Investment Fund (BSIF) is a quasi-governmental body that was established by the Government of Belize (GOB) in 1996 with the passage of the Social Investment Fund Act. The BSIF is designed to contribute to the reduction of poverty in both urban and rural areas through the delivery of small-scale community sub-projects under various sectors including water and sanitation, health, economic infrastructure, education, social services, and organizational strengthening.

The BSIF assists local communities in identifying community issues and in deciding which interventions can provide solutions.

BSIF is seeking to recruit an individual to fill the position of Technical Officer-Community/ Institutional Development Job Summary: The Technical Officer - Community and Institutional Development (TO-CID) will be stationed at the Fund’s headquarters in Belmopan and will be supervised by the Technical Unit Coordinator.

The TO-CID will conduct project appraisals, supervision, and monitoring, and will serve as a resource person for the BSIF in conducting social and institutional appraisals. The officer will also be responsible for coordinating the activities of the field officer in assessing community needs and assets and in conducting activities aimed at strengthening beneficiaries.

PUBLIC AUCTION SALE: LIMESTONE QUARRY PROPERTY Chicibul Road, [Mountain Pine Ridge Road] South Georgeville, Cayo District

BY ORDER of the Receiver, Messrs. Caribbean Investors Limited, Licensed Auctioneers Kevin A. Castillo and Christiana R. Castillo are selling ONLINE via belizepropertyauctions. com the below described property. Sales currently running and will expire between Monday 31st May 2021 at the time shown on the website.

44.107 acres Chicibul Road, (Mountain Pine Ridge Road), South of Georgeville Village, Cayo District:

Qualifications & Experience: A minimum of a Bachelor of Science in Sociology, Rural/ Community Development, or related field. The candidate shall have at least five (5) years of experience in project management and in community development. The candidate shall be computer literate with a working knowledge of the Microsoft Office suite of applications. The candidate shall possess experience in working with international funding agencies. The candidate shall be fluent in English. Fluency in Spanish shall be highly considered.

Duties and Responsibilities: 1. Perform all duties in keeping with the procedures, guidelines, and agreements provided for by the organization.

2. Participate as a member of BSIF’s Technical Unit - in being the lead intermediary - in organizing and supervising community needs and assets assessments and organizational needs assessments.

3. Conduct technical, financial, environmental, economic, sustainability, institutional, and social assessments of project proposals.

4. Participate as a member of BSIF’s Technical Unit - in being the lead intermediary - for the development of projects, which shall be presented to the BSIF Board of Directors and funding agency(ies) for approval.

5. Oversee the activities undertaken by BSIF’s field officer.

6. If called upon, conduct the technical evaluation of bids for the execution of works and the supply of goods.

7. Conduct the evaluation of expressions of interest submitted by consultants, followed by the technical and financial evaluation of proposals submitted for the provision of consultancy services.

8. Monitor the activities of contractors and goods suppliers to ensure that services rendered are in accordance with the terms and conditions of their respective contracts.

9. Monitor and supervise the activities undertaken by consultants to ensure that services rendered to the BSIF are in accordance with the terms and conditions of their respective contracts.

10. Verify payment certificates submitted by consultants and BSIF’s engineer/architect.

11. Act as the lead intermediary in the coordination and supervision of work undertaken by community members as a part of their community contribution.

12. Act as the lead intermediary in the coordination and supervision of training activities for various stakeholders.

13. Prepare budget changes that may arise during the execution of project activities.

14. Liaise with various counterparts to ensure the efficient execution of project activities.

15. Work along with various line ministries, non-governmental organizations, and community-based organizations to strengthen collaborative efforts.

16. Assist the administrative staff in ensuring that project files contain all required documentation.

17. Assume responsibility for the Fund’s Assets assigned to the officer for the execution of duties; 18. Report to the Technical Unit Coordinator on the progress of activities under execution.

19. Any other duties required for the effective functioning of the BSIF.

ALL THAT piece or parcel of land situate South of Georgeville Village, Cayo District containing 44.107 acres bounded and described as shown by Plan No. 42 of 2003 helb by Minister’s Fiat Grant No. 42 of 2003 TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon. (Being 44.107 acres of land [7.5 acres being utilized as a limestone quarry + 3.4 acres Office Headquarters Area + Remaining Portion - undeveloped land situate beside the New Paved Chicibul Road, (Mountain Pine Ridge Road), South of Georgeville Village, Cayo District, the freehold property of Messrs. Caribbean Investors Limited).

N.B. Sale of Property Subject to Existing Lease.

Tropical Park, Belize District

BY ORDER of the Mortgagees Messrs. The Belize Bank Corporation Limited, Licensed Auctioneers Kevin A. Castillo and Christiana R. Castillo are selling ONLINE via belizepropertyauctions.com the below described property. Sales currently running and will expire between Monday 10th May 2021 at the time shown on the website.

Lot No. 775 Tropical Park, George Price Highway, Belize District:

Supervisor: Technical Unit Coordinator, Belize Social Investment Fund Proposed Salary: Negotiable based on qualifications and experience. The successful candidate will be employed on a full-time contractual basis and stationed at BSIF’s Office in Belmopan. The initial contract period shall be two (2) years, extendable by mutual agreement in accordance with prevailing Belize legislation as well as results of his/her performance appraisal.

Work Station: The TO-CID will be stationed at the BSIF office in Belmopan; however, will be required to travel to communities in various parts of Belize.

Closing Date for Receipt of Applications: Monday, May 10th, 2021 at 3:00 p.m.

Kindly submit One (1) original and two (2) hard copies of CV, complete with cover letter, copies of degree/certificates to: Executive Director Belize Social Investment Fund Constitution Drive Belmopan Belize, Central America william.lamb@sifbelize.org CC to: nellie.trench@sifbelize.org ruby.pascascio@sifbelize.org Re: Technical Officer - Community/Institutional Development

ALL THAT piece or parcel of land containing 724.665 s. m. being Lot 775 situate at Tropical Park, Western Highway, Belize District TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon. (Being a concrete bungalow dwelling house [3 bedrooms + 2 bathrooms + living/dining/kitchen] and lot [724.665 S. M.] situate at Tropical Park, Western Highway, Belize District, the freehold property of Ms. Orissa Molina and Mr. Javier Molina)

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THE BELIZE TIMES

TENDER FOR THE SUPPLY OF UNIFORM ITEMS TO THE BELIZE COAST GUARD FOR FISCAL YEAR 2021/22

PUBLIC AUCTION SALE: PROPERTY

BY ORDER of the Chargees, Messrs. Alpha Gamma Financial Services Limited, Licensed Auctioneer, Fernando Molina, will sell the following properties, being the freehold property of Palmetto Holdings Ltd., TOGETHER with all buildings and erections thereon in one lot by way of public auction on site on Friday, the 7th of May, 2021 at 11:00 a.m.: REGISTRATION SECTION

BLOCK

PARCEL

Placencia North

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662 (1.91 Acres), 663 (1.60 Acres), 664 (1.29 Acres), 665 (1.14 Acres), 678 (0.99 Acre), 679 (0.98 Acre)

Consisting collectively of 800 ft of Lagoon Front (Parcels 662, 663, 664, 665) & 400 ft of beach on the seaside (Parcels 678 & 679).

Total Land Area: 7.91 acres Buildings & improvements: 3-Storey – 4,770 sq ft Concrete Structure suitable for commercial use.

Building under construction – piles driven

TERMS: STRICTLY CASH For further particulars on the properties, please contact: Email: info@beaconrealtybz.com Tel: 610-0919

2021

1. Tenders are invited for the supply of uniform items listed below to the Belize Coast Guard for the period 1st April 2021 to 31st March 2022.

2. Quotation for the supply of uniform items is to be based on Duty Paid Prices. Brand names are to be specified where necessary. Prices that are submitted cannot be change.

3. Please note that 3% contract tax will be withheld.

4. Contract will be terminated if the contractor consistently fails to supply the requisite items as agreed.

5. Tenders should be in sealed envelope marked “Tender for the Supply of uniform Items to the Belize Coast Guard” and should be deposited in the tender box at the Ministry of National Defence and Border Security, Belmopan no later than the 28th June 2021 at 1130 am.

LIST OF UNIFORM ITEMS REQUIREMENT BELIZE COAST GUARD Belize Coast Guard, 4 ½ Miles George Price Highway, Belize City SER

Description/ Specifications

Units

Quantity

Remarks/Standards

1

Tropical Blue Shirt

each

250

USCG Standard

2

Tropical Blue Trouser

each

200

USCG Standard

3

Garrison Cap

each

250

USCG Standard

4

Metal CG Emblem

each

100

Gold

5

Bates Lite Shoe - Black

pair

300

Bates Lites

6

Black Nylon Belt

each

200

Military Type

7

Silver Buckle

each

200

Silver

8

Gold Buckle

each

50

Gold

9

Name Plate

each

200

USCG Specs – Trops (hard plastic)

10

PT Shirt w/logo - yellow

each

200

Dry weave

11

PT Short w/logo - black

each

200

Dry weave

12

Sea Bags

each

100

US Navy Waterproof (Black)

13

ODU Midnight Digital Jacket

each

250

Tru Spec

14

ODU Midnight Digital Trouser

each

250

Tru Spec

15

ODU Midnight Digital Navy Caps

each

400

Embroidery

16

Heavy Duty Belts - black

each

100

Rigger

17

Hot weather Combat Boot black

pair

450

Belleville

18

Steel Toe Tropical Boot - black

pair

50

Belleville

20

Digital BELIZE GUARD Tape

450

Match Digital Uniform (cloth)

21

TRU Twisters

pair

450

Tru Spec

22

Digital NAME Tape

each

450

Match Digital Uniform (cloth

23

Unit Patches

each

200

Embroidery

24

Rank Patches

each

100

Match Digital Uniform (cloth)

25

Belize Flag Patch

each

100

Embroidery

26

Coast Guard Patch

each

100

Embroidery

27

Summer White Shirt

each

250

Short Sleeve/Button

28

Summer White Trouser

each

250

29

Combination Cover

each

200

Vanguard

30

Bates Lite Shoe - White

pair

50

Bates Lites

31

White Nylon Belt

each

50

Military Type

32

Officer Shoulder Boards

pair

50

Vanguard (BELIZE)

33

Officer Ranks

pair

50

Vanguard - Metal

34

Enlisted Ranks

pair

100

Vanguard - Metal

35

Coveralls Navy Blue

each

60

Dickies

36

Service Dress Jacket

each

15

USCG Standard

37

Service Dress Trouser

each

15

USCG Standard

38

Gold Buttons Set

pair

50

Belize Coast Guard Custom made

39

Combat Shirt

each

46

Crye precision G3 woodland

40

Combat Trousers

each

46

Crye precision G3 woodland

41

Tru Spec Shirt

each

23

Woodland true spec

42

Tru Spec pants

each

23

Woodand true spec

43

Hydration Pack with Bladder

each

10

44

DD Frontline Hammock Super Light

each

23

45

Boonie Cap

each

23

46

Condor 3 Day Assault Pack

each

23

47

Condor Plate Carrier

each

12

Crye precision jumpable

48

Rocky CT4 Boots

each

23

Rocky CT4

49

Black Hawk Omnivore M9 Holster

each

23

Black Hawk

50

Mag Pouch/holster

36

Matrix fast hard shell M4

51

SIM Bolt carrier

each

10

Keisier force 5.56 simulation

52

8-point head dress cover

each

23

woodland

COAST each

each

BDU woodland patrol cap

9 MAY

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BY ORDER OF CHARGEE NOTICE OF INTENTION TO SELL

BY ORDER OF CHARGEE NOTICE OF INTENTION TO SELL

NATIONAL BANK OF BELIZE LIMITED a company duly incorporated and registered under the Laws of Belize with registered office situate at Parcel 7550 Corner Forest Drive & Hummingbird Highway, Belmopan, Cayo District, Belize hereby gives notice of its intention to exercise its power of sale as Chargee under a Legal Charge between DALE PELAYO hereinafter called “The Chargor” and NATIONAL BANK OF BELIZE LIMITED hereinafter called “The Chargee” which was duly recorded at the Lands Registry in the City of Belmopan on the 20th day of March, 2014 by Instrument No. LRS-201403490. NATIONAL BANK OF BELIZE LIMITED will at the expiration of Two months from the date of the first publication of this notice sell the properties described in the Schedule below.

NATIONAL BANK OF BELIZE LIMITED a company duly incorporated under the Laws of Belize with registered office situate at Parcel 7550 Corner Forest Drive & Hummingbird Highway, Belmopan, Cayo District, Belize hereby gives notice of its intention to exercise its power of sale as Chargee under a Legal Charge between LYNDON RUSSELL GILLETT and RHYMA ANN GILLETT hereinafter called “The Chargors” and NATIONAL BANK OF BELIZE LIMITED hereinafter called “The Chargee” which was duly recorded at the Lands Registry in the City of Belmopan on the 30 th day of January, 2015 by Instrument No. LRS-201501223. NATIONAL BANK OF BELIZE LIMITED will at the expiration of Two months from the date of the first publication of this notice sell the properties described in the Schedule below.

ALL offers to purchase the said property must be made in writing to NATIONAL BANK OF BELIZE LIMITED from whom full particulars and conditions of sale may be obtained.

SCHEDULE ALL THAT piece or parcel of land comprising 0.25 Acres being Parcel 922, Block 24 in the Society Hall Registration Section TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon, the freehold property of DALE PELAYO. DATED this 15th day of April 2021 NATIONAL BANK OF BELIZE LIMITED Corner Forest Drive & Hummingbird Highway, Belmopan, Cayo District

ALL offers to purchase the said property must be made in writing to NATIONAL BANK OF BELIZE LIMITED from whom full particulars and conditions of sale may be obtained.

SCHEDULE ALL THAT piece or parcel of land comprising 464.416 square meters being Parcel 3499, Block 1 in the Corozal North Registration Section TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon, the freehold property of LYNDON RUSSELL GILLETT and RHYMA ANN GILLETT. DATED this 15 th day of April 2021 THE NATIONAL BANK OF BELIZE LIMITED Corner Forest Drive & Hummingbird Highway, Belmopan, Cayo District

BY ORDER OF CHARGEE NOTICE OF INTENTION TO SELL

BY ORDER OF CHARGEE NOTICE OF INTENTION TO SELL

NATIONAL BANK OF BELIZE LIMITED a company duly incorporated and registered under the Laws of Belize with registered office situate at Parcel 7550 Corner Forest Drive & Hummingbird Highway, Belmopan, Cayo District, Belize hereby gives notice of its intention to exercise its power of sale as Chargee under a Legal Charge between FAUSTINO MOH hereinafter called “The Chargor” and NATIONAL BANK OF BELIZE LIMITED hereinafter called “The Chargee” which was duly recorded at the Lands Registry in the City of Belmopan on the 8th day of October, 2014 by Instrument No. LRS-201412899. NATIONAL BANK OF BELIZE LIMITED will at the expiration of Two months from the date of the first publication of this notice sell the properties described in the Schedule below.

NATIONAL BANK OF BELIZE LIMITED, a duly incorporated and registered Company under the Laws of Belize with registered office situate at Parcel 7550 Corner Forest Drive & Hummingbird Highway, Belmopan, Cayo District, Belize hereby gives notice of its intention to exercise its power of sale as Mortgagee under a Deed of Mortgage made BETWEEN ELSTAN LORD (hereinafter called “the Mortgagor”) and NATIONAL BANK OF BELIZE LIMITED (hereinafter called “the Mortgagee”) which was duly recorded at the Land Titles Unit in the City of Belmopan on the 26th day of August, 2015 as Instrument No. LTU-201501452. NATIONAL BANK OF BLIZE LIMITED will at the expiration of Two months from the date of the first publication of this notice sell the property described in the SCHEDULE below.

All offers to purchase the said property must be made in writing to NATIONAL BANK OF BELIZE LIMITED from whom full particulars and conditions of sale may be obtained.

ALL offers to purchase the said properties must be made in writing to NATIONAL BANK OF BELIZE LIMITED from whom full particulars and conditions of sale may be obtained.

THE SCHEDULE ABOVE REFERRED TO ALL THAT piece or parcel of land comprising 10.96 Acres being Parcel 200/1, Block 1 in the CONCEPCION/AVENTURA Registration Section TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon, the freehold property of FAUSTINO MOH. ALL THAT piece or parcel of land comprising 10 Acres being Parcel 202/1, Block 1 in the CONCEPCION/AVENTURA Registration Section TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon, the freehold property of FAUSTINO MOH. DATED this 15th day of April 2021

THE SCHEDULE ABOVE REFERRED TO ALL THAT PIECE OR PARCEL of land being Lot No. 52 (775.443) square meters of land situated North of Bermudian Landing-Burrell Boom Road, Bryam Estate Area, Belize District bounded and described as shown on Plan No. 40 of 2007, Entry No.1404 Reg No. 12, attached to Minister’s Fiat Grant No. 40 of 2007 TOGETHER will all buildings erections and developments standing and being thereon.

NATIONAL BANK OF BELIZE LIMITED

NATIONAL BANK OF BELIZE LIMITED

Corner Forest Drive & Hummingbird Highway, Belmopan, Cayo District BELIZE

Corner Forest Drive & Hummingbird Highway, Belmopan, Cayo District BELIZE

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